“What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter.”

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

“Good leadership is not just a matter of making things happen; it is a matter of making essential things happen, making important and productive things happen, and helping people feel good about what is happening. Leaders need to have a vision, but they also need to know how to convince others that their vision can manifest, and how to empower them to participate in the mission of bringing the vision about.”

“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.”

“Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.”

“We are motivated by what makes our hearts feel lighter, no matter what is happening.”

“Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.”

“What happens to you at the board begins to feel like it's happening to you in person.”

“Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.”